While escorting British convoy KMF-4 off the Algerian coast the destroyer was intercepted by U-443 on 11 December 1942 11 nautical miles (20 km) north-west of Oran. U-443 aimed one torpedo at her and then one at the convoy but both hit the destroyer and sank her 60 nautical miles (110 km) off the coast with the loss of 89 men.